Description
Simple solidification porosity model
This is a simple approximation to solidification where the solid phase
is represented as a porous blockage with the drag-coefficient evaluated from
\f[
S = - \alpha \rho D(T) U
\f]
where
\vartable
\alpha | Optional phase-fraction of solidifying phase
D(T) | User-defined drag-coefficient as function of temperature
\endvartable
Note that the latent heat of solidification is not included and the
temperature is unchanged by the modelled change of phase.
Example of the solidification model specification:
\verbatim
type solidification;
solidificationCoeffs
{
// Solidify between 330K and 330.5K
D table
(
(330.0 10000) // Solid below 330K
(330.5 0) // Liquid above 330.5K
);
// Optional phase-fraction of solidifying phase
alpha alpha.liquid;
// Solidification porosity is isotropic
// use the global coordinate system
coordinateSystem
{
type cartesian;
origin (0 0 0);
coordinateRotation
{
type axesRotation;
e1 (1 0 0);
e2 (0 1 0);
}
}
}
\endverbatim
Description
Simple solidification porosity model
This is a simple approximation to solidification where the solid phase
is represented as a porous blockage with the drag-coefficient evaluated from
\f[
S = - \rho D(T) U
\f]
where
\vartable
D(T) | User-defined drag-coefficient as function of temperature
\endvartable
Note that the latent heat of solidification is not included and the
temperature is unchanged by the modelled change of phase.
Example of the solidification model specification:
\verbatim
type solidification;
solidificationCoeffs
{
// Solidify between 330K and 330.5K
D table
(
(330.0 10000) // Solid below 330K
(330.5 0) // Liquid above 330.5K
);
// Solidification porosity is isotropic
// use the global coordinate system
coordinateSystem
{
type cartesian;
origin (0 0 0);
coordinateRotation
{
type axesRotation;
e1 (1 0 0);
e2 (0 1 0);
}
}
}
\endverbatim
if convergence is not achieved within the maximum number of iterations.
Sometimes, particularly running in parallel, PBiCG fails to converge or diverges
without warning or obvious cause leaving a solution field containing significant
errors which can cause divergence of the application. PBiCGStab is more robust
and does not suffer from the problems encountered with PBiCG.
- Constructs a validated word, in which all invalid characters have
been stripped out and any leading digit is '_'-prefixed.
Words with leading digits cause parse issues when read back later.
- Replaces previous functionally identical code from src/conversion
--
COMP: test against nullObject instead of checking address for null pointer.
- The code create a box with a (0,0,0) point.
The new definition is more logical and makes it very easy to grow
the bounding box to include new points. It also simplifies much of
the logic in the constructors.
- Use ROOTVGREAT instead of VGREAT for sizing greatBox and invertedBox.
Avoids some overflow issues reported by Mattijs (thus GREAT has been
used in treeBoundBox), but might still need further revision.
- to the referenced object via a method name, which may be clearer
than deferencing the iterator
[key, value] => iter.key(), *iter
[key, value] => iter.key(), iter()
[key, value] => iter.key(), iter.object()
- Constructor for bounding box of a single point.
- add(boundBox), add(point) ...
-> Extend box to enclose the second box or point(s).
Eg,
bb.add(pt);
vs.
bb.min() = Foam::min(bb.min(), pt);
bb.max() = Foam::max(bb.max(), pt);
Also works with other bounding boxes.
Eg,
bb.add(bb2);
// OR
bb += bb2;
vs.
bb.min() = Foam::min(bb.min(), bb2.min());
bb.max() = Foam::max(bb.max(), bb2.max());
'+=' operator allows the reduction to be used in parallel
gather/scatter operations.
A global '+' operator is not currently needed.
Note: may be useful in the future to have a 'clear()' method
that resets to a zero-sized (inverted) box.
STYLE: make many bounding box constructors explicit
reduce()
- parallel reduction of min/max values.
Reduces coding for the callers.
Eg,
bb.reduce();
instead of the previous method:
reduce(bb.min(), minOp<point>());
reduce(bb.max(), maxOp<point>());
STYLE:
- use initializer list for creating static content
- use point::min/point::max when defining standard boxes
